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The 
Typical American 

BY 

Charles Edward Locke 

Author of " Freedom's Next War 
FOR Humanity" 



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The Typical American 



"While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er 
Shall sink while there's an echo left to air." 

— Byron. 



** There is scarcely a man whose name is connected 
with the early colonization of North America that is 
not noble and memorable. There was the brilliant and 
unhappy Raleigh. There was Captain John Smith, a 
man with the soul of a Crusader. There was William 
Penn, ever acting in the spirit of his own conviction 
that the weak, the just, the pious, the devout are all of 
one religion. There was Bradford, the stern governor. 
There was Oglethorpe, with ' his strong benevolence of 
soul.' There was the hero of the Indian Wars, Miles 
Standish. There was Roger Williams, the founder of 
Providence. There were Winthrop and Endicott, the 
worthy founders of worthy lines." — Farrar. 



* ' I was born an American ; I live an American ; I 
shall die an American." —Webster. 



The 
Typical American 

HAVING the need in the Nation of men 
good and true to fight our country's 
battles and solve our country's problems, let us 
stop long enough to contemplate the career of 
an ideal American citizen. Mazzini, in his 
brilliant address to the young men of Italy, 
said: "Love, love and venerate the ideal. The 
ideal is the Word of God." 

It has often been asked, ''What made Wash- 
ington great?" After the centennial of the death 
of Washington, we are viewing the ''father of 
his country" through a perspective of one hun- 
dred years. It has been said that some of his 
contemporaries were at a loss to account for the 
greatness of Washington ; it is because the world 
does not know its greatest men. Seven cities 
contend for Homer dead, through which the liv- 
ing Homer begged his bread. By a cruel irony 
of fate, a stupid humanity has persecuted and 
despised and denoimced and killed those truly 
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6 George Washington 

great men whom a succeeding generation has 
sainted and adored and deified. This was less 
true of Washington than of many who have 
served their fellow-men. 

*'Of all great men, Washington was the most 
virtuous," says Guizot; and Green, who was as- 
sociated with brilliant actors in the history of 
nations, declares: "No nobler figure ever stood 
in the forefront of a nation's hfe." Washington 
Irving writes: 'The character of Washington 
possesses fewer inequalities and a rarer union of 
virtues than perhaps ever fell to the lot of one 
man." It was a generous encomium that fell 
from the lips of that great Englishman, Lord 
Brougham: "It will be the duty of the historian 
and sage in all ages to let no occasion pass 
of commemorating this illustrious man." And 
long ago we have made Daniel Webster's words 
our own: "America has furnished to the world 
the character of Washington. If our American 
institutions had done nothing else, that alone 
would have entitled them to the respect of man- 
kind." 

Yes, Washington was a great man! He was 
a strong, brave, modest, righteous, unswerving, 
and absolutely uncompromising nobleman. He 
was a well-bred, well-trained, courteous Christian 
chevalier and gentleman. He was great, not by 



The Typical American 7 

caprice or accident or environment, but because 
of the nobility of his superb character. Such 
a man is destined to be great whenever he ap- 
pears. Such men make epochs; if the age is 
not ready for them, they build their own en- 
vironment and do their work. We agree with 
Phillips Brooks, "The more we see of events, the 
less we come to believe in any fate or destiny 
except the destiny of character." 

The towering grandeur of Washington was 
not the result of circumstances especially for- 
tuitous. He was not hurried to an eminence of 
fame by inexorable fate. He was what he was, 
and accomplished what he did because of his 
honor, his fitness, his industry, and his piety; 
in one word, because of his character. Char- 
acters like his can not be suppressed; they chal- 
lenge attention, and invariably achieve. It is 
not one Washington in a hundred years that 
the Nation needs, but a hundred Washingtons 
in one year! 

The character of Washington was the product 
of two conspicuous qualities. The first was his 
love of country. Washington had a genius for 
patriotism. He was a brave soldier, and be- 
came a masterful strategist. Frederick the Great 
pronounced his generalship on the Delaware 
as *'the most brilliant achievement recorded in 



8 George Washington 

military annals," and, in sending a sword to 
Washington, inscribed the following extraordi- 
nary words: *Trom the oldest general in Europe 
to the greatest general in the world." Wash- 
insrton was a statesman, an intuitive statesman. 
He had the prophetic sense, and was a man of 
profound wisdom. Patrick Henry, when asked 
who was the greatest man in the First Con- 
tinental Congress, said: "If you speak of solid 
information and sound judgment. Colonel Wash- 
ington was unquestionably the greatest man on 
that floor." 

Washington was a statesman with a prophetic 
instinct. All great statesmen must be seers. 
Washington was a seer. That serious counte- 
nance, those serene eyes looked into the future 
with marvelously clear vision. He participated 
in the framing of those memorable documents 
that were forwarded by the First Continental 
Congress to England, and of which Lord 
Chatham declared in Parliament: "When your 
lordships look at the papers transmitted to us 
from America, when you consider their decency, 
firmness, and wisdom, you can not but respect 
their cause, and wish to make it your own. For 
myself, I must declare and avow that in all my 
reading and observation — and it has been my 
favorite study: I have read Thucydides and have 



The Typical American 9 

studied and admired the master statesmen of 
the world — that for soHdity of reasoning, force 
of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under 
such a complication of difficult circumstances, 
no nation or body of men can stand in prefer- 
ence to the General Congress at Philadelphia." 

A study of Washington's State papers as 
President of the United States further reveals 
his character as an astute and far-seeing states- 
man. His Farewell Address is compact with 
wise counsels to his wide constituency, and is 
one of the freshest and most apropos discussions 
to be studied by those who are bearing the bur- 
dens of government in these days of our ex- 
panding opportunities as a Nation. It is easy 
for us to agree with Bancroft that "but for 
Washington the country could not have achieved 
its independence; but for him it could not have 
formed its union; and now but for him it could 
not set the Government in successful motion." 

The other quality that entered into the 
colossal strength of Washington's character was 
his devotion to God. He was a man of prayer. 
From the carnage of Braddock's field to his 
farewell words to the people of the Nation, his 
dependence and faith in God were often ex- 
pressed. He was an active and consistent 
Churchman. After Braddock's defeat and death, 



lO George Washington 

Washington wrote to his brother that in this 
fearful battle he had four bullet-holes in his 
coat and two horses were shot under him, but 
**by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence 
I have been protected beyond all human prob- 
ability or expectation." At the First Continental 
Congress, while others stood when the chaplain 
led in prayer, he knelt. At \^alley Forge he 
won the victory first on his knees under the trees. 
In his first Inaugural Address he solemnly de- 
clares : '^No people can be bound to acknowledge 
and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts 
the affairs of men more than the people of the 
United States. Every step by which they have 
advanced to the character of an independent 
Nation seems to have been distinguished by some 
token of providential agency." In those memo- 
rable utterances, before seeking for the last time 
the quiet seclusion of his Mount Vernon home, 
he spoke like an Isaiah when he said: ''Of all 
the dispositions and habits which lead to po- 
litical prosperity, religion and morality are in- 
dispensable supports. And let us with caution 
indulge the supposition that morality can be 
maintained without religion. Reason and ex- 
perience both forbid us to expect that national 
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious 
principle. Can it be that Providence has not 



The Typical American ii 

connected the permanent felicity of a nation with 
its virtue?" 

The Father of His Country received his early 
training from his devoted mother. He was a 
mother-made man. It was her loving remon- 
strance which prevented him from becoming a 
midshipman in his boyhood, and her counsels 
and prayers and love sustained him in his man- 
hood. He nobly recognized her influence when 
he said, "All I am I owe to my mother!" Yon- 
der glistening monument, as it leans against the 
eastern sky, is a beautiful memorial to a mother's 
infinite patience and perfect love! It is Wash- 
ington's monument — Mary Washington's monu- 
ment! His father having died when Washington 
was but a lad of eleven years, his entire training 
was received from his mother. How faithfully 
she discharged that solemn trust must be read 
in the radiant pages of our Republic's history. 
Mary Washington gathered her children about 
her, and prayed with them. She read to them 
daily from the Bible, and made them familiar 
with the helpful utterances of great writers. 
When God would make a great man, he gives 
him first a great mother! All good mothers are 
great mothers! Your mother, noble princess, 
perhaps unknown beyond the humble home and 
narrow circle of a few admiring friends, was a 



12 George Washington 

great mother, and, though unknown to fame, 
wears a royal diadem jeweled by God's own 
artificers, because she gave to the Father her 
best service, and taught her family to give to 
God their truest love. If a generation of mothers 
was necessary for Napoleon's hysterical empire, 
mothers, devoted mothers, mothers like Mary 
Washington, are absolute and indispensable fac- 
tors in our Republic. In a Government ''of the 
people, for the people, by the people," the 
mothers hold the destiny of the Nation in their 
control; "the hand that rocks the cradle moves 
the world ;" the mothers are the country's states- 
men! 

Washington combined religion and patriot- 
ism in an unsullied character that shall grow 
brighter and be better appreciated with increas- 
ing ages. 

He was an imperial republican, who had sub- 
lime faith in a democracy, and who could spurn 
the suggestion to make himself a king. He was 
great because he was not ambitious — because he 
recognized the Divine guidance. He was a God- 
man — a believer in the Deityship of Jesus 
Christ, on whom a mighty epoch was turning. 

With George Washington contrast the career 
of the brief, brilliant, delusive Bonaparte. In 
his early life Napoleon seemed to be reHgious. 



The Typical American 13 

I have indulged the thought that the great Cor- 
sican came into the drama of human history to 
promote its highest purposes. The most ardent 
imagination can not dream of the vast progress 
which might have been made for civiHzation if 
Napoleon had followed his God as humbly and 
obediently in Europe as did Washington in 
America. But Napoleon broke with God, and 
languished in exile. "Napoleon victor at 
Waterloo did not harmonize with the law of 
the nineteenth century." Men can not long suc- 
cessfully combat the Divine purpose in the age 
in which they live. The weapons of his early 
triumphs became soon the instruments of his 
disastrous defeat, and Napoleon is now but a 
pathetic episode in the history of a century. 

But Washington, unlike his daring contem- 
porary, heard the Divine voice and was true to 
the higher call. He recognized his dependency 
upon his God, and, forgetting himself, sought to 
obey his Maker and fulfill the plans of the Father 
of Nations so far as those purposes involved 
man's little enterprises; and Washington has 
won for himself imperishable fame that will in- 
crease in brightness until all things finite shall 
blend their glory into the radiance of the Infinite. 
From the lofty altitude of a stainless life, sur- 
rounded with the love and gratitude of a mighty 



14 George Washington 

people, with the serene words, "It is well," fall- 
ing from his lips, Washington was translated. 

In the language of Winthrop at the laying 
of the corner-stone of the Washington monu- 
ment: "The Republic may perish; the wide arch 
of our raised union may fall; star by star its 
glories may expire ; stone after stone its columns 
and its capitol may molder and crumble; all 
other names which adorn its annals may be for- 
gotten; but as long as human hearts shall any- 
where pant, or human tongue shall anywhere 
plead for a sure, rational, constitutional liberty, 
those hearts shall enshrine the memory and those 
tongues shall prolong the fame of George Wash- 
ington." 

**High poised example of great duties done, 
Modest, yet firm as nature's self; unblamed. 
Saved by the men his noble temper shamed. 
Broad-minded, high souled, there is but one 
Who was all this and ours and all men's — Washington." 



Let us go to his tomb at Mount Vernon; a 
holy shrine for patriots to ofifer themselves in 
full consecration to the service of their God and 
their country. He was "first in peace, first in 
war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." 
And with such a noble example will we not be 



The Typical American 15 

ready to answer God's command and our 
country's call? 

"All must own the fatherhood of him. 
Whose glory time can never dim, 
All who can reckon Freedom's worth, 
Would write across this whole broad earth, 
With pen dipped in the sun, 
The magic name of Washington." 



America s Nezv Mission 
and Oppoi^hmity 



"The sword, after all, is but a hideous flash in the 
darkness ; right is an eternal lay." —Victor Hugo. 



** I do not know why, in the year 1 899, this Republic 
has unexpectedly had placed before it mighty problems 
which it must face and meet. They have come and are 
here, and they could not be kept away. Many who 
were impatient for the conflict a year ago, apparently 
heedless of its larger results, are the first to cry out 
against the far-reaching consequences of their own acts. 
Those of us who dreaded war most, and whose every 
effort was directed to prevent it, had fears of new and 
grave problems which might follow its inauguration. 
The evolution of events, which no man could control, 
has brought these problems upon us. The Philippines, 
like Cuba and Porto Rico, were intrusted to our hands 
by the providence of God. It is a trust we have not 
sought. It is a trust from which we will not flinch." 

— Mc Kin LEV. 



♦'America is only another name for opportunity. 
is God's final effort in behalf of the human race." 

—Emerson. 



America's New Mission 
and Opportunity 



Al rE must hasten to wage an internal war 
^ ^ against vice and oppression, for already 
the God of nations is sending America forth upon 
a new mission, and thrusting new responsibilities 
upon Church and State. 

Imbued with the sublime idea of liberty, our 
forefathers left their native land and braved the 
dangers of a turbulent sea and met the attacks 
of frenzied savages. Then followed the Colonial 
and Constitutional periods. War might have 
been avoided if it had not been for a stupid king 
and an imbecile foreign policy. The long Revo- 
lutionary struggle resulted in the permanent es- 
tablishment of the foundations of liberty upon the 
shores of this new country. 

Then there came the internal strife, the spirit 

of liberty demanding universal acceptance in the 

Nation. It was the application to ourselves of 

the same principle, for the recognition of which 

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20 America's New Mission 

by the mother country we had successfully 
fought a great war. In this so-called "land of 
the free and home of the brave" there must be 
unity and solidarity. Shall we proclaim our- 
selves free to the world, and inconsistently permit 
the institution of human slavery to disgrace and 
befoul the Republic? Shall America, after gain- 
ing a great victory for liberty over a foreign 
country, suffer disintegration and decline, be- 
cause of internal disease which it was not able to 
expel or resist? The war of the sixties was, 
therefore, the logical sequence of the landing of 
the Mayflower. 

During the four decades that have passed 
since the surrender at Appomattox, our Nation 
has been busy developing the superstructures 
of liberty and inculcating the broadest principles 
of freedom; and, satisfied with our own broad 
land, we did not dream of any larger mission. 
Suddenly we found ourselves in the new role of 
defender and propagator of liberty. Until two 
years since our obligations were bounded by two 
great oceans, and we did not conceive it to be 
our duty to spread the mystic influence of free- 
dom beyond the borders of our own possessions. 
But when, a few months ago, there came from 
a beleaguered people, hardly a hundred miles off 
our Eastern coast, a pleading cry, ''Come over 



America's New Mission 21 

and help us;" and when it was known that thou- 
sands of human beings were dying of starvation 
on account of the cruelty and incompetency of an 
emasculated government, after days of hesitancy 
and wondering whether the Stars and Stripes 
had any right to interfere, America gallantly 
leaped the narrow dividing sea, and, as a defender 
of liberty brought freedom tO' an abused and 
grateful people. It was a war for humanity, and 
introduced America to its new^ part in the drama 
of nations as a propagandist of liberty. The 
fervent utterances of Henry Clay are as appro- 
priate to present obligations as if they were 
spoken yesterday: "I am no propagandist. I 
would not seek to force upon other nations our 
principles and our liberty if they do not want 
them. But if an abused and oppressed people 
will their freedom; if they seek to establish it, 
we have a right as a sovereign power to notice 
the fact, and tO' act as circumstances and our in- 
terests require. I will say in the language of the 
venerated Father of my Country: 'Born in a land 
of liberty, my anxious recollections, my sympa- 
thetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresist- 
ibly excited whensoever in any country I see an 
oppressed nation unfurl the banner of freedom.' " 
The victory in the war with Spain thrust new 
and unexpected burdens and privileges upon us 



22 America's New Mission 

as a Nation. As a natural sequence of the war, 
as l(5gical as the war itself, there came into our 
possession the archipelago of the Pacific Ocean. 
The acquisition of the Philippines, with their 
eight millions of semi-pagan population, seemed 
a part of the war for humanity. Dewey's re- 
markable victory was anticipated. Spain had 
shown herself unworthy and unable to give a 
sufficient government to these islands; and there 
was nothing left for our country but to become 
the guardians of these neglected and oppressed 
people. As we receive the honors of that brief 
war, so we should not be unwilling to carry the 
burdens which that victory has laid upon our 
shoulders. 

As exponents of liberty we have always be- 
lieved in expanding our territory. During the 
Administration of President Jefferson, at an ex- 
penditure of $15,000,000, that vast area then 
known as Louisiana, that is bounded by the 
Mississippi and the Gulf, and reaching to the 
Rockies on the west and to British America on 
the north, was purchased. Later, Florida and 
California and Oregon and Alaska were also ac- 
quired. We have been expansionists from the 
beginning; it is the genius of our Republic be- 
cause it is the genius of growth. Whatever has 
life expands; the blade, the stalk, the oak; and if 



America's New Mission 23 

nations enjoy healthful growth, they must ex- 
pand by the very laws of their being. In 1800 
Spain owned nearly all of this hemisphere; but 
in 1901 not a foot of land did she possess. The 
last ]ewt\ to slip from her palsied hand was the 
pearl of the Antilles. Spain is contracting, and 
not expanding, because she has long since ceased 
to be a growing nation. President Grant once 
reverently said: 'T do not share in the appre- 
hension of many persons as to the danger of 
governments becoming weakened and destroyed 
by reason of their extension of territory. Com- 
merce, education, and rapid transit of thought 
and matter by telegraph and steam have changed 
all this. Rather do I believe that our own Great 
Maker is preparing the world, in his ow^n good 
time, to become one nation, speaking one lan- 
guage; and then armies and navies will be no 
longer required." 

In our role as a propagator of liberty we can 
not be indififerent to "the world's wrongs, the 
world's woes, and the world's wars." Wherever 
there are people struggling for their inherent 
rights, there it will be our duty and privilege to 
ofifer the encouragement of a Nation every step 
of whose progress has been contested by the 
opponents of personal and national liberty. Our 
duty is to give to Cuba protection and independ- 



24 America's New Mission 

ence. To Cuba and the Philippines must be 
taken our schools, our laws, our national oppor- 
tunities, and all the privileges and care which the 
Stars and Stripes may be able to afford oppressed 
peoples. 

And, furthermore, America's war for human- 
ity has won for her a conspicuous place in the 
counsels of nations. In the bewildering crisis 
into which the world is now^ coming, the solution 
of the perplexing problems will be more easy 
and possible, because of the unique relationship 
of the United States of America to the allied 
Powers of Europe. The Philippines are only six 
hundred miles from the Asiatic coast. America 
has come ''into the kingdom for such a time as 
this," and her constitutional and traditional 
policy of national rights and personal freedom 
will speed the day of universal peace. 

If it shall be objected that the white man can 
not live in the tropics, and hence America has 
no call of duty to the inhabitants of the distant 
archipelago, it will be necessary only to quote 
from the experiences of that very renowned 
naturaHst, Alfred Russell Wallace, who has spent 
may years under the equator: 'The fact is that 
white men can live and work anywhere in the 
tropics, if they are obliged; and unless they are 
obliged, they will not, as a rule, work even in the 



America's New Mission 25 

most temperate regions. The most conclusive 
example is that of Queensland, the climate of 
which is completely tropical ; yet white men work 
in every part of it. The scores of varied indus- 
tries of a civilized community are carried on by 
white workmen without any difficulty, and with 
no special effect on their general health. This 
case really settles the question." 

The obligations which have been thrust upon 
the Church are even more important than those 
which have come to the State. In the Philip- 
pines are eight millions of people speaking 
thirty-five dialects, who need to be educated, 
Christianized, and made homogeneous. These 
multitudes have been cruelly victimized by sacer- 
dotal despotism and official rapacity. Upon in- 
vestigation it is being found that Cuba was no 
more viciously and inhumanly treated than have 
been the inhabitants of the Philippine Archipel- 
ago. These millions are waiting to learn of a 
kind of Christianity which ennobles manhood, 
which honors and protects pure womanhood, 
which opens schools and cares for the sick and 
poor, and which transforms the multitudes into 
happy, refined, law-abiding communities. The 
Christian Church should pour its money and 
send armies of consecrated teachers into these 
beautiful islands, and reclaim a people who have 



26 America's New Mission 

been cursed by mediaeval tyranny and corrupt 
ecclesiasticism. 

We adopt as our own the eloquent words of 
President McKinley: "No imperial designs lurk 
in the American mind. They are alien to Amer- 
ican sentiment, thought, and purpose. Our 
priceless principles undergo no change under a 
tropical sun. They go with the flag. If we can 
benefit these remote peoples, who will object? 
If in the years of the future they are established 
in government under law and liberty, who will 
regret our perils and sacrifices? Who will not 
rejoice in our heroism and humanity? Always 
perils, and always after them safety ; always dark- 
ness and clouds, but always shining through 
them the light and the sunshine. Always cost 
and sacrifice, but always after them the fruition 
of liberty, education, and civilization. I have no 
light or knowledge not common to my country- 
men. I do not prophesy. The present is all- 
absorbing to me; but I can't bound my vision 
by the bloodstained trenches around Manila, 
where every red drop, whether from the veins of 
an American soldier or a misguided Filipino, is 
anguish to my heart; but by the broad range of 
future years, when that group of islands, under 
the impulse of the year just past, shall have be- 
come the gems and glories of those tropical seas, 



America's New Mission 27 

a land of plenty and of increasing possibilities, 
a people redeemed from savage indolence and 
habits, devoted to the arts of peace, in touch with 
the commerce and trade of all nations, enjoying 
the blessings of freedom, of civil and religious 
liberty, of education and of homes, and whose 
children and children's children shall for ages 
hence bless the American Republic because it 
emancipated and redeemed their fatherland, and 
set them in the pathway of the world's best civil- 
ization." 

If Church and State, working independently, 
but each under the guidance of the God of Na- 
tions, will assume these new obligations and 
prove faithful to these great responsibilities, 
blessings will come to the world which it is not 
in the power of other nations to bestow ; and God 
will greatly magnify our Republic and strengthen 
our borders. 

Expansion is not necessarily imperialism. 
Our duty to the world is to proclaim liberty, to 
give to all the inhabitants thereof our gospel of 
freedom; to teach men how to govern them- 
selves. And so soon, under our tutelage, as the 
Cuban and the Tagal shall be fitted for self- 
government, our America shall surprise the 
grasping nations of the world by her magnani- 
mous treatment of her temporary colonists. The 



28 America's New Mission 

God of Nations has called us to this mighty 
task, and the progeny of the Pilgrim Fathers will 
not be recreant to the great trusts which they 
have inherited. 

**For we 
Who scarce yet see 
"Wisely to rule ourselves, are set 
Where ways have met 
To lead the waiting nations on ! 
Not for our own 

Land now are freedom's flags unfurled. 
But for the world." 



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Freedom's Next War for Humanity, _ 

By Charles Edward Locke. 



FREEDOM'S NEXT 
WAR FOR HUMANITY 

By CKarles Erd^ward LocKe 



TN his introductory chapter, the author states the pur- 
pose of his discussions. After referring to America 
in her new role of propagator and defender of hberty, 
and to the recent victories won by the Stars and Stripes 
for oppressed humanity, he says : 

"As we have fought a war for humanity, for peoples 
of other blood and language, so if our Nation shall be 
perpetuated we shall be compelled to wage a war for the 
oppressed and victimized portions of our own citizenship. 
. . . While, therefore, as a Nation, we are providentially 
led to assist struggling peoples in their contention for their 
personal rights, we must not be unmindful of paramount 
interests at home, which if neglected will speedily shorten 
our career as propagators of liberty, and exhibit the Ameri- 
can Republic to the world as a pitiable spectacle — a Nation 
which could save others, but which could not save itself." 



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